(Oldenburg, IN) – Longtime local State Senator Jean Leising says her house was the target of a pipe bomb threat on Saturday evening.
The Republican from Oldenburg wrote in a social media post that this was the result of Washington, D.C. political pundits who are in favor of Indiana redrawing its Congressional maps mid-cycle.
The threat was investigated by the Oldenburg Town Marshal, Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, and Indiana State Police.
“…all is okay,” Leising wrote in her statement.
“Hoping that legislators will not cave to the negative texts, phone calls, swatting, bomb threats, etc.,” Leising added. “We have to do what is right for our Indiana constituents.”
Leising wrote in an op-ed piece last week that only seven percent of her constituents in Senate District 42 are in favor of the mid-cycle redistricting effort.
There had been no arrests made in connection with the bomb threat at the Leising home as of early Sunday evening.
